Past Events

  • Recital Series

    Alina Ibragimova

    March 10, 2015 - March 14, 2015

    With a recent five-star performance at Wigmore Hall of Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas, violinist Alina Ibragimova was hailed as “one of today’s outstanding interpreters of the most elemental music in the repertoire” (The Guardian, UK). Still representing the pinnacle of violin mastery for more than two centuries after Bach’s death, these cherished works are again revisited by this expressive violinist in the beloved Board of Officers Room.

  • Recital Series

    Lindemann Young Artists

    March 19, 2015

    The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program nurtures the most talented young artists through training and performance opportunities, with alumni of the program that have gone on to become stars of the opera stage, including Stephanie Blythe, Anthony Dean Griffey, Nathan Gunn, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Dawn Upshaw. See three of the next generation of opera greats from the program — soprano Christine Price, tenor Andrew Stenson, and bass-baritone Brandon Cedel—in an intimate evening of song in the Board of Officers Room.

  • Recital Series

    Ian Bostridge & Wenwen Du

    April 17, 2015

    Celebrated for the remarkable passion, drama, and directness of his elegant performances, British tenor Ian Bostridge is widely admired as one of the world’s most perceptive and accomplished musicians. A supremely expressive storyteller of song, Bostridge is joined by the eminent pianist Wenwen Du to present an artfully curated program of songs exploring the music and poetry of the Great War. The program ranges from songs by soldier composer George Butterworth to Britten’s setting of poems about children in wartime.

  • Recital Series

    The Night Dances

    April 22, 2015 - April 26, 2015

    Explore the subtleties of Benjamin Britten’s suites for solo cello through the lens of the American poet Sylvia Plath, considered one of the leading cultivators of confessional poetry. Acclaimed actor Charlotte Rampling and renowned cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton bring together Plath’s haunting poetry and Britten’s powerful music for the U.S. premiere of this intimate melding of artistic voices.

  • Recital Series

    David Fray

    October 6, 2015 - October 9, 2015

    Franz Schubert had a tragically short but extremely productive life. While known for composing over 600 songs and song cycles, his works for piano are perhaps some of the most beautiful pieces of chamber music ever composed. French pianist David Fray harnesses the delicacy and richness of color in his playing to interpret three of these expressive works in the Board of Officers Room.

  • Recital Series

    Rushes Ensemble

    October 23, 2015

    With one of the most unorthodox ensembles imaginable, New York City-based Michael Gordon, composer and founder of the iconic Bang on a Can collective, offers a sonic meditation for seven bassoons in its New York City premiere. Best known for music driven by rhythmic intensity and power, Gordon explores interweaving textures and the timbre of a surplus of double reeds to form a steadily pulsating, unbroken wall of woodwind sound.

  • Recital Series

    Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber

    November 10, 2015

    While he has triumphed in international opera and oratorio appearances, Christian Gerhaher is also today’s foremost interpreter of lieder, with his vocal artistry profoundly conveying the poetry and emotional seed of each song. After inaugurating the reopening of the Board of Officers Room in 2013, the burnished baritone returns with his longstanding recital partner Gerold Huber for a program that highlights the Viennese peak of the art song tradition.